By Daniel Howley
Publication Date: 2026-04-02 14:18:00
The AI industry is grappling with the fallout this week from two security incidents that exposed customer data at Mercor and source code at Anthropic (ANTH.PVT).
Mercor was hit by a supply chain attack related to an open source project called LiteLLM. As a result, the hacker group Lapsus$ claims to have gained access to Mercor’s customer data, reported TechCrunch.
Mercor uses experts from various areas to train appropriate AI models. Its customers include companies such as OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Anthropic.
Garry Tan, president and CEO of Y Combinator, said in a post
